Snopes is a pretty good source of urban legends on account of the extensive research that they do on each one and that they are not quick to say something's true without very conclusive evidence, as reflected by the fact that so few of the urban legends on the site they claim to be true.

I wonder if this is the one I began recieving at work last week?. Each day I get an email with a different subject and an "install.exe" file (usually around 200k) along with an html file culled from the infected computer's cache. I'm recieving these on a Mac so I just throw them out, but it's beginning to get annoying. I opened one of the html files up and recognized it as part of one of our client's web pages. I should probably alert him. I know he runs his own server so he might have a bug. Anyone know which virus this could be?

If more people had Macs and Linux, the virus writers would start hitting those with viruses also...those virus writers are out to hit the "maximum audience", and the "maximum audience" is currently Windows PC users...

If you want the conveniance of Windows and the security of Linux, just run a linux computer as a hardware firewall (you can get low power computers pretty cheap. it doens't have to be a pentium 4 or anything). Oh yeah, and don't use Outlook, or at least turn off the preview pane, and block questionable attachments (XP does this automatically), and turn off macro execution (XP also does this automatically).

Hmm, I think I got one of these just a few minutes ago. Pine just displayed "Cannot display this part. Press 'V' then 'S' to save it to a file so you can fark up your computer beyond repair. Oh wait, you're running linux. In that case you can examine the little farker at your leisure. Or just press 'D' to delete this message."

albertxxxx - anybody who can write a good mac virus - there are hundreds of companies that would hire them in a minute as an application programmer. you can write a windoze virus after you've graduated from the forth grade.

I realize many mac users are retarded or were drunk/high when they made their purchase, but you have to realize one thing; If Macs were the dominant personal computer, or even somewhat close to a being mildly popular, virus writers might actually target them and we'd all have to dodge shiat from all the flying pigs.

If you look at the actual share of personal computers in use around the world, 11.6 percent of them are macs. That equates to 32 million computers around the world- certainly enought computers to bother writing a virus for. This also makes Apple the number one computer brand in the world.

This number, compared to the market share of Macs being sold, also speaks very well for their longevity.

If more people had Macs and Linux, the virus writers would start hitting those with viruses also...those virus writers are out to hit the "maximum audience", and the "maximum audience" is currently Windows PC users...

True, but UNIX (Linux is a copy of UNIX), at least, has some built-in security measures that make catching and spreading viruses more difficult. Of course, Linux viruses are possible, but it would be a lot harder to do, even if Linux were as popular as Windows.

I don't want to get into a Mac v. Windows v. Linux debate, but Microsoft has been pretty apathetic about computer security, and this is the result. They're a bit better now than they used to be, but there is so much of their old software out there that these viruses will be around for years to come.

This link clearly proves that so called "white supremacists" are actually level headed individuals who have seen the truth, that the numbers of caucasians are dwindling and that if something isn't done soon there will be no white people left.

If you like, I can probably find a link proving the existence of Santa Claus, as well.